Gadgetory

so I did a durability test on the 2017 lg gram and it went pretty well but there were a few suggestions a few people wanted to know what the camera lens was made out of it looks like it's made out of plastic but since this isn't like a portable in your pocket device I don't think that's too big of an issue another person wanted to know if the charging port still worked which it does you can see it charging here in the corner surprising to me though with that some of you said the drop test wasn't violent enough so let's try it one more time on some concrete stairs looks like we got a little damage on the edges here on the corner see if it still works and it is still functioning looks like we're still in one piece got a small bend right there on the corner but everything else still works that's pretty impressive drop it down about eight stairs there so now that I know the laptop can survive a 200-pound guy standing on it being dropped normally on a carpeted floor and being dropped down a flight of concrete steps let's take it apart and see what's inside I'm curious to see how big the battery actually is inside of this thing this laptop was given to me by LG two durability tests and teardown which is rather brave of them opening up the laptop is actually pretty easy it needs to be turned off first and then all the Phillips head screws are hidden under these little circular tabs and rubber boots there are eight screws total even without the screws in place the back is still very solidly snapped into the frame so it takes some pretty heavy prime to remove it and look at the size of that battery I'll talk more about this in a second but it's a 60 watt hour battery with an advertised lifespan of 17 hours pretty darn impressive for a laptop it's got a copper heat pipe system over the processor similar to what we saw inside the LG G 6 except for this one also has a fan attached to it speaking of cool the ports are detached from the motherboard and on a separate PCB I'm as missing to help keep the laptop super thin but it's also good for repair ability if one of your ports break you don't need a new motherboard you can just swap out the less expensive smaller boards we have two USB ports a headphone jack and an micro SD card slot on this side and on the far side we have a charging port another USB port and HDMI and a USB C port this laptop needs 0 dongles in order to be useful it's ready to rock right out of the box speaking of useful LG has upgradability longevity and repair ability in mind when designing this laptop the RAM is modular if you were to buy an Apple laptop this would be soldered on to the large motherboard which is not replaceable and not upgradable but with this LG Graham in a few years when the specs are outdated you can just plop in a higher capacity Ram stick and continue being productive same thing with the hard drive this laptop comes with 512 gigabytes but a few years down the road as games and video files keep increasing in size you might want to upgrade this em--to slot allows for upgrading hard drives if you were to buy a new macbook from apple a few years from now you'll be left high and dry with no upgradable hardware so I'm super glad that LG is still looking out for consumers thumbs up for that onto the battery there are six screws around the edge of this gigantic thing I can unclip it from the motherboard and the 60 watt hour battery comes loose it looks like it has four separate quadrants inside of it which is interesting looks like the touchpad is replaceable and another cool thing I noticed when I toss it down those concrete stairs is that there are super strong magnets in the base and the lid holding it together since this laptop is so lightweight the magnets make sure that the lid doesn't fall open on accident and lastly if your screen does break somehow the hinge connectors are here along with the attachment to the motherboard the what's inside YouTube channel drop one of these laptops from 25 feet on the concrete and it still lived so a broken screen is going to be pretty rare I'll clip that battery back in with its six screws and then that back panel made from the special nano carbon magnesium alloy snaps into place with eight screws for extra security overall this laptop is a solid and durable build with ports and replaceable components so it gets a thumbs-up for me as with all electronics the price is always changing so I'll add a link in the video description for the most current up-to-date pricing on this laptop huge thanks to LG for sending me this one to review and let me know in the comments which laptop you want to see me review next thanks ton for watching I'll see you around